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so you've bought a fancy DSLR because you're tired of your smartphone photos

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coming out looking like crap if your shooting environment isn't perfect how

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many Instagram filters have been used applied over the years just to hide the

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fact that your original photos looked awful but even though SLR is an

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incredibly versatile tool the Maze of settings and options to get your pictures looking just right can feel

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like an unsolvable puzzle to a photography novice but one of the most

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important settings is also one that is not too hard to get the hangup I'm

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talking about ISO which stands for international standards organization

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which I know makes a ton of sense ISO settings are extremely useful for taking

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photos when the lighting around you is less than ideal a lot of you might

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remember the days when we all bought rolls of film instead of SD cards and

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the primary way one rle of film seem to differ from another was the film's speed

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given by ISO or ASA ratings like 100 200

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and 400 although it's hard to buy film anymore this is essentially the same

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system that's used in modern digital cameras but instead of measuring film's

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speed ISO is now a measurement of how much Light reaches the image sensor you

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can learn more about that up here so why

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does this matter well each time you double the iso rating the amount of light that the camera needs to produce

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an image is cut in half suppose you're trying to take that perfect family photo

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but then keeping everyone in focus at f2.8 on any lens can be difficult so you

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stop down your lens to increase your depth of field but now your shot is way

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too dark but instead of using your on camera flash which can render

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backgrounds fairly dark you can increase your eyes so to see all those

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wonderfully painful Smiles that have been held over all the time you took to

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take take that photo increasing the iso setting is also a great idea if you have

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to utilize a high shutter speed such as when you're doing sports photography too

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low of an ISO setting will make a fast skating hockey player or a soccer ball

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hurdling towards the goal look blurry properly exposed so it's critical for

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people who shoot sports for a living to get the iso setting correct to work with

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a high shutter speed so is it a good idea to just leave your ISO on a high

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setting all the time given the obvious advantages of a high ISO you might think

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so but there are some significant drawbacks as well higher ISO settings

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tend to introduce noise to your photograph which usually makes your pictures look very grainy since the

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camera's High sensitivity at a high ISO will also make undesirable noise to be

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Amplified well-made modern slrs can usually keep noise at a higher ISO to an

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acceptably low level but if you crank the iso to high enough Point your

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pictures will start to show the grain very easily lower ISO settings also tend

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to produce more realistic looking colors so if you have even lighting it's

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probably a good idea to use the lowest ISO setting you can without making your

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pictures look too dark just as there were good reasons for people to buy 100s

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speeed film back in the day there are still good reasons to use the lowest ISO

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setting possible on your digital camera such as when you're taking pictures of a

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still object in clear sunlight but if you're concerned about having accurate

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shadows and highlights and retaining the most detail in your dynamic range a

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higher ISO is still often the way to go especially if you're trying to shoot in

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a poorly lit environment so next time you're struggling with getting just the

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right shot remember to do a quick check on your ey ISO setting and save yourself

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the pain of trying to fix it in Photoshop or having a photo that looks

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like a drunken concert selfie and speaking of getting your lighting

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exactly right Hive lighting they're one of the leading plasma lighting

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manufacturers for all production needs they have three different fixtures that

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the lowest power draw Lights I've ever used coming in at 273 watts and giving

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me the output of an incandescent light that would easily draw six times more

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power which makes it a lot nicer on the office power B when I accidentally leave

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